Organizations are collections of users, both end-users and agents (see About groups and organizations). Multiple organizations for users is available on Professional or Enterprise. Organizations are not available on Essential, and users can belong to only one organization on Team.

Adding and removing multiple organizations for users

You can add a user to multiple organizations, up to as many as 300. You can remove a user from any of their organizations as needed.

When you remove a user from an organization, if the organization was the user's default organization, a new default organization is selected from the user's remaining organizations. Adding and removing users from organizations affects tickets these ways:

Any non-closed tickets associated with that user and that organization are updated to have no organization. They aren't automatically assigned to another organization. You can add an organization to the associated tickets at any time.

Any closed tickets remain associated with the organization that was set on the ticket when it was closed.

If one of the organizations a user belongs to is deleted, any non-closed tickets associated with the deleted organization are updated to have no organization. If the organization that was deleted was the user's default organization, one of the user's other organizations is promoted to be the default organization.

To add a user to multiple organizations

Open the profile for the user you want to add to multiple organizations.

Click Add organization.

Start typing the name of the organization, then select the organization.

A list of matching organizations appears as you type.

Click Add organization to add another organization, and repeat as needed.

Your update is saved automatically, so when you are finished you can simply navigate away.

To remove an organization from a user who belongs to multiple organizations

Open the user's profile.

Click the name of the organization you want to remove, then select Remove.

Click Yes, remove it in the confirmation box.

Changing the default organization for a user

When you add a user to multiple organizations, the first organization that you added to the user becomes the user's default organization. If the default organization for a user is deleted, and the user belongs to multiple organizations, one of the other organizations the user belongs will become the default organization.

When an organization is deleted, any non-closed tickets associated with the deleted organization are updated to have no organization. If the organization that was deleted was the requester's default organization, one of the requester's other organizations is promoted to be the default organization.

The default organization is also used in Explore for reporting. You can report on users according to their default organization only.

You can change the default organization for a user at any time.

To change the default organization for a user who belongs to multiple organizations

In the user's profile, click the name of the organization you want to make the default, then select Make default.

Understanding the end-user experience for multiple organizations

When users belong to multiple organizations, they can choose the organization for any support request they submit in your Help Center.

Users who belong to multiple organizations can change the organization for any of their support requests in your Help Center.

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How does entitlement work with users belonging to multiple orgs? Here's an example:

Org A (standard support)
Org B (better support)
Org C (vip support)

User 1 is a user in each of these orgs. I assume in this scenario, we'll need to enforce customers to submit a ticket online so they can select the appropriate org. Each org has a unique tag associated with the support level (i.e. "vip"). If User 1 selects Org C from the drop down, will the "vip" tag be added to the ticket?

This reply is a little late, but I wanted to let you know that you are correct here. You will want users to submit a ticket from your Help Center, this way they can select the appropriate org if they are members of multiple orgs. Since the user's tags and their org tags will be added to tickets they request, if you have a tag called "vip" on Org C and a user submits a ticket with that Org C selected the tag will be added to the ticket.

Hi, we have the need to connect an end user to more than 300 organizations. We have some users that have up to 5,000 organizations (large restaurant chain). Is Zendesk working on enhancing this to accomodate the B to B model that we operate in?

Thanks for your question! If you or someone on your team is familiar with utilizing the API, you could create a script using this "Organization Membership" API doc. Per that article, a membership links a user to an organization.

Organizations can have many users. Users can be in many organizations if the account supports multiple organizations. This end point will allow you to to list users in an organization.

As far as I know this isn't something on our to-do list...I did some poking around in our Product Feedback forum, and I don't see any threads on this particular thing either.

I'd definitely recommend popping over there to post your suggestion, including your detailed use case - that information is really helpful to our Product Managers so they can fully understand the problem you're trying to solve.

Thanks for posting this question. Unfortunately, at the moment this can only be done with a bit of CSS in your Help Center code in Guide. There's not currently a setting to just switch that field off within the product.

This would be neat functionality though so I definitely recommend posting this as a feature request over in our Product Feedback forum.

"When you remove a user from an organization, any tickets that are less than closed, and are associated with that user and that organization, will be assigned to the user's default organization. Any closed tickets remain associated with the organization that was set on the ticket when it was closed."

It sounds like you are saying that if a user is removed from Organization A that any tickets that were associated to that user and Organization A will be changed to the user's default organization which is different from Organization A. Is that the case?

If so then that makes no sense to me at all. Why would you change the organization that a ticket is associated too? Tickets should be linked to the organization and not the user.

Thanks for checking in with us on this. Tickets are associated to users on the user level, and not on the organization level like you're looking for here. In light of this, the behaviour noted here is expected.

When you remove a user from an organization below are the outcomes:

1. If the user only has 1 linked organization:

If you remove a user from an organization, and that user only has this 1 organization linked to their profile as their default (only) linked org, then the users active tickets will remain assigned to the user and not associated with any organization.

2. If the user is linked to multiple organizations on their user profile:

If you remove a user from an organization, and that user is linked to multiple organizationns on their profile; when you remove the user, all of their active tickets will be reassigned to the organization which has been set as the default for the user.

I know this may not be ideal for what you're looking for here; however I hope this has been of help in clearing this up for you regarding the behaviour around removing a user from an org and what happens to their active tickets.

How could one configure a report that shows the user and all organizations that they belong to? The two "How"s of my report are "User" and "Organization Name" but the results of this report only show one organization associated to a user that has been configured with 2+ Organizations.

Unfortunately it's not possible to list users under each of their Organizations. The Gooddata Data Model only allows users to have one Organization association value in a Report, and that's their default Organization.

If you want to list all organizations a user is a part of you'll most likely need to use the API to accomplish this.

I just created an organisation where I manually add all the users. I created another one where users are added based on their email domain. I enabled the "Users can belong to multiple organisations" option.

I uploaded a lot of users via .csv and added them to the "manual" organisation during the upload.

My problem is, that all those users haven't automatically been added to the domain based organisation.

I think this was asked a while ago, but I can't see an answer: If a user is a part of multiple orgs, and has the permission "can view tickets from user's org" what do they see? all tickets from all the orgs? Or only the default org? How does that work?

In the case you're describing, the user should see a drop-down where they can select which organization they'd like to see tickets for. When they first land on the end-user portal ("My Activities" page) it should load the tickets for their default org.

What if in a multiple organization scenario, I want the page to load all applicable organizations as a default? In the scenario I have, the people view this area will be Sales Reps who need to see all of their organizations at a glance and not one default organization.